Canoe Nation

Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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More than an ancient means of transportation and trade, the canoe has come to be a symbol of Canada itself. In Canoe Nation, Bruce Erickson chronicles the story of the canoe in the Canadian imagination. He argues that the canoe's sentimental power has come about through a set of narratives that attempt to legitimize a particular vision of Canada and explores how the canoe went from being an industrial-economic vehicle to a purely recreational vessel. From Alexander Mackenzie to Grey Owl to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the canoe has been overvalued as a connection to the "nature" of Canada. Examining voyageur re-enactments, turn-of-the-century sportsman stories, and the subsequent "greening" of the canoe, this book shows how this symbol authenticates Canada's reputation as a tolerant, environmentalist nation, even when there is abundant evidence to the contrary. Ultimately, the stories we tell about the canoe need to be understood as moments in the ever-contested field of cultural politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-06-24
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774822480

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Preface: Canoeing MattersIntroduction: Canoes and the Nature of Canada1 Pedagogical Canoes: "Forced Intimacy," Suffering, and Remembering National History2 I Fish, Therefore I Am: Recreational Canoeing and Wilderness Travel at the Turn of the Century3 Regimes of Whiteness: Wilderness and the Production of Abstract Space from Seton to Grey Owl4 Recreational Nationalism: Canoeing as Political ActivismConclusion: Future Politics and the Production of the NationNotesReferencesIndex

Canoe nation explores how the canoe is not only an important object of Canada's understanding of itself as a nation, but also a vital and changing practice that is key to historically specific configurations of economics, landscapes, and modes of governance and citizenship. Ranging from the fur trade to celebrity wilderness paddling and tracing complex connections among economic, colonial, pedagogical, recreational, and environmental desires, Erickson's brilliantly original analysis shows that the canoe is, quite literally, a vehicle of power in the Canadian national landscape. - Catriona Sandilands, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University